Tics and Toxins: Pesticide Ban, Rainfall Could Point to Poisonous Fungus as Factor in Student Outbreaks
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Kim S.Posted
Wed 01 Feb 2012 12:00am
By Dan Olmsted and Mark Blaxill
LEROY, N.Y., February 6 -- Last year, during the wettest spring ever recorded across large swaths of New York state, a little-noticed law took effect: As of May 18, pesticide use was banned from the grounds of every school in the state. That same month, a girl at the junior/senior high scho ...
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Tics and Toxins: Evidence Points to Environment, Infection in LeRoy Outbreak
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Kim S.Posted
Wed 01 Feb 2012 12:00am
By Dan Olmsted and Mark Blaxill
As the white-hot glare of attention begins to pull away from the outbreak of tics among students at LeRoy Junior/Senior High School in Western New York, most medical and media sources appear to have settled on “conversion disorder” as their default diagnosis.
Newsweek acknowledged the famili ...
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The Natural Powers of Lemon Grass Tea for Health
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Methods of HealingPosted
Tue 01 Dec 2009 10:00pm
In the 18th and and 19th century, lemon grass was a popular remedy for a variety of ailments for the Spanish and Mexican immigrants to the western United States. No garden was without this lemony herb that was used to make many natural remedies including medicinal teas. With the advent of new chemical food processes and pharmaceuticals, lemon gra ...
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List of Essential Oils
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Methods of HealingPosted
Sun 20 Nov 2011 4:58am
Essential oils and aromatherapy have been common healing and therapeutic methods since the first century. There is also documented evidence of essential oils being used by the ancient Egyptian Pharos, who prized the pure plant essence more than gold. Coveted by European Crusaders and primitive South American tribes alike, aromatherapy using ess ...
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Pesticides in Shanghai and Globally
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Dr. B GPosted
Sun 25 Mar 2012 3:38am
Titanium (Cover of Sia, David Guetta)
Collin McLoughlin
Pesticides -- Shanghai Problem
Pesticides, herbicides and fungicides are big problems here in Shanghai. Apparently we live in the city with the highest reported field application of pesticides (kilograms per hectare) out of the whole country. According to the report b ...
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FDA Approves Life-Saving Horse Drug
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FDAPosted
Thu 16 Dec 2010 7:23am
by Lynne Oliver, DVM and Melanie McLean, DVM, Center for Veterinary Medicine, FDA
Led by the Office of New Animal Drug Evaluation (ONADE), FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine recently approved EQUIDONE (domperidone) Gel for the prevention of fescue toxicosis in pregnant mares. The approval of EQUIDONE Gel is import ...
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How to Eliminate Brown Patches from your Lawn
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Garden.comPosted
Mon 21 May 2012 5:00pm
What’s worse than spending all that time caring and maintaining your lawn only to discover ugly, large brown patches of grass? It’s so frustrating that it often causes many homeowners to give up on tending to the lawn all together. So what can you do to eliminate this problem and prevent it from occurring again?
Here are a few solution ...
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31 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Evelyn…
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EvelynPosted
Fri 17 Sep 2010 12:00am
I have read blog posts of other people that I follow, who did this and I thought it would be fun to share a little about myself, since it is Friday. I got this idea from Ali and Jennifer. Ali wrote an article entitled 50 Things About Me and Jennifer wrote an article entitled 25 things You Probably Didn’t Know About Me ...
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A Fabulous Fungus ~ Cordyceps
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Tcm007Posted
Wed 15 Sep 2010 6:33am
Last month I wrote about a heist in Vancouver , Canada of a Chinese Herbal store. One of the expensive items stolen was the well known Chinese cure all cordyceps. Many of you may ask what is so special about this fungus ? Well here is Cathy with an answer for you.
From pacherbs
By Cathy Margolin L.A.c.
Shopping a ...
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